Archive for the “blindness” Category

Something tells me these photos are sensational

August 13, 201522 CommentsPosted in baseball, blindness, Flo, Mike Knezovich, travel, Uncategorized

My niece Jen and her one-year-old daughter, who I lovingly call “Toots,” flew in from Florida yesterday. My sister Bev and her family are coming by train from Michigan later this morning. My sister Marilee is flying in from Florida tomorrow, my brother Doug and his daughter Marsha are driving in from Louisville Friday afternoon, […]

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World-famous blind nude model tells all

August 7, 20158 CommentsPosted in blindness, careers/jobs for people who are blind, memoir writing, Mike Knezovich, Uncategorized, writing

My one minute of fame from that “Where are They Now?” video about me on the Oprah Winfrey Network last month brought up a lot of questions from friends who didn’t know me back when I modeled nude for art students. One Safe & Sound blog follower emailed me personally with a lot of questions, […]

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Musical selfies

August 5, 201516 CommentsPosted in baseball, blindness, Mike Knezovich, Uncategorized

In case you missed it, my friend Nancy Faust was featured in an article in last Sunday’s New York Times. Wow. What a fantastic lead sentence to this blog post. What is astounding about that sentence is not that the retired White Sox organist was featured in The Times, but that I can honestly and sincerely […]

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Let's keep working: today is the 25th anniversary of the ADA

July 26, 201523 CommentsPosted in blindness, careers/jobs for people who are blind, technology for people who are blind, Uncategorized

When I finished college I got a job at the Study Abroad Office at University of Illinois. During one-on-one appointments with U of I students, I’d ask what they might like to study overseas, what sort of living arrangements they wanted, did they speak a foreign language, which countries they were particularly interested in, that […]

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